The gentleman in the YouTube video is not concerned about everything being functional. The point of this collection is a display of everything that he has purchased, from VHS cassettes, through obsolete video disc formats, to the latest 4K UHD discs. In addition, he has mounted a sizeable...
There's a good editorial in The Digital Bits yesterday about the end of Ultraviolet:
http://www.thedigitalbits.com/columns/my-two-cents/013119-1200
As Bill Hunt points out, digital media and physical media complement each other.
I was really pleased to see Doug Pratt get a mention here. His LaserDisc Newsletter was the reason I became a laserdisc-DVD-bluray collector and I STILL subscribe to his newsletter, nearly 30 years after I first started. He has gone through some tough times with the advent of Internet publishing...